Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chang Chun Petrochemical Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions currently active. Both of these 2 pending office actions are being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's current prosecution efforts. The data indicates 0 distinct art units for these cases, suggesting a very specific or early-stage focus for the current filings that has not yet resulted in assignment to multiple technical divisions. This lack of art unit diversity highlights a highly concentrated prosecution effort.
DUMBRIS, SETH M is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. Because DUMBRIS, SETH M is the only 1 distinct examiner involved, this individual is responsible for the entirety of the company's 2 pending office actions. This concentration gives the examiner significant influence over the immediate development of the company's patent portfolio. Practitioners should note that the company's current success is entirely dependent on the review of DUMBRIS, SETH M, as there are 0 distinct art units providing alternative paths for patent allowance for these 2 pending office actions.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 2 | 76.4% | +16.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084131 | COPPER FOIL, CURRENT COLLECTOR AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| 19084178 | COPPER FOIL, CURRENT COLLECTOR AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084131 | COPPER FOIL, CURRENT COLLECTOR AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19084178 | COPPER FOIL, CURRENT COLLECTOR AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
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